Wang Jian'an
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Wing Wang Jian'an was a Chinese military official and general in the People's Liberation Army.
Wang Jian'an in 1955.
Eighth Route Army
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The Eighth Route Army, also known as the 18th Group Army, was a field army nominally under the banner of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, established in 1937 as part of the Se
Wang Jian'an
…1936, he enrolled at the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University. In May 1938, Wang was appointed as commander of Jinpu Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, he fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in north China's Shandong province. After the Chinese Civil War broke out in 1945, he fought with the…
Eighth Route Army fighting on the Futuyu Great Wall, Laiyuan, Hebei, 1938. Photograph by Sha Fei.
In July 1937, the Presidium of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party issued an order for the Chinese Red Army to reorganize into the National Revolutionary Army and stand by for the anti-Japanese front line.
Former site of the Eighth Route Army Office in Guilin.
Chinese poster depicting the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi.